Glimpses of Truth

Serious or Not !

How many times in your life have you heard someone say, “I promise?”  I’m sure you haven’t been keeping count, but I’m sure you, like me, have heard it often.

Sometimes it simply comes as a person’s statement.  We simply took them at their word.  Or maybe we heard and saw in their eyes and expressions the intent of their heart.

Maybe it was a Sunday morning promise, which is difficult to keep on Monday morning.  Maybe it’s easy to understand the black and white of the issue – Thou shalt and Thou shalt not.  But what about the issues which seem to have no clear teaching from the scripture?  Are we simply left with the toss-of-a-coin approach or “God, if you want me to do this or don’t want me to do this, show me a sign?”

The things (worldly values) around us today are playing us like a drum.  We are being influenced, warped beyond description.  We are numb to the realistic effects it’s having on us, our churches, our families, our political leaders, our godly pastors, spiritual leaders, and everybody else, whether they be lawyers, mechanics, housewives – you name it.

In the Christian life, we have made commitments (promises) that have become null and void.  I’m afraid we have become so anemic to the power within that almost nothing substantial is coming forth from those former promises.

We live, plan, and accomplish, all outside of the leadership of the Holy Spirit.  The commands from a Holy God which call us to become “holy and blameless” and to “live a life worthy of the calling you have received” may have become secondary.  To be “mature” and “imitators of God” doesn’t seem to fit into our lifestyle when we’re having fun.  To “keep yourself pure” and to “keep oneself form being polluted by the world” is not the main theme of our life.

So what happens?  When we don’t find the black and white, we simply compromise with the way of the world, and all the spiritual values given to us and for us are thrown out.  What’s worse today is that so many among us (even our leaders) (political and spiritual) are compromising the word of God in order to be accepted by the world’s ways - politically correct.

The promises which were made were based upon the bold, simple truths from God.  The commitment to keep those promises, I’m afraid, are based on something less, far less than the ways of God.

Thus we become less than holy, less than blameless, immature, imitators of something, impure, and polluted.

What’s happened?  We’ve taken our eyes off of a Holy God.  We’ve neglected the word of God.  We’re not really “set apart” or are we?  If we are His, then, we have a responsibility to follow Him, to be true to our calling.  “You were called because Christ also suffered for us,”  “called to be saints,” “called by His grace,” “called to walk worthy,” “called with a holy calling.” It’s time to be serious about our calling!